St. Josef Breitenfurt Monastery near Vienna
The St. Josef Breitenfurt Monastery near Vienna is located on main road No. 58 in the market town of Breitenfurt near Vienna in the Mödling district in Lower Austria . The Monastery " refuge " St. Joseph is one of the Roman Catholic Daughters of Divine Charity . The street wing of the monastery and the monastery chapel are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Originally there was a mill on the Reiche Liesing stream . The mill was acquired by the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love in 1873 and rebuilt. The monastery chapel was built in 1910 with the builder Kajetan Miserovsky and the architect Heinrich Winkler. From 1942 to 1971 the monastery and the chapel were the parish of Breitenfurt-Ost, and the chapel was also the parish church , replaced by the new parish church in Breitenfurt near Vienna-St. Boniface .
Monastery building
The two-storey, four-winged mill building from 1873 was converted several times for use as a monastery.
Monastery chapel
The neo-Gothic chapel from 1910 has a retracted rectangular choir and has a roof turret above the portal wing. The facade is structured with local stones. The portal has a crooked roof.
The chapel hall has blind niches on the side. The narrower, slightly raised choir has rounded corners. The retracted organ gallery has a straight parapet.
The altar table and the tabernacle are neo-Gothic. The altarpiece St. Josef on the choir wall was painted in 1727 by Johann Michael Rottmayr for the Carmelite Church In der Laimgrube , given to the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love in 1870, restored in 1945/1946 by the painter and restorer Robert Eigenberger (1890–1979) and transferred here.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Breitenfurt near Vienna, St. Josef Monastery "Refuge", Monastery Chapel, p. 291.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 2.9 " N , 16 ° 10 ′ 36.3" E